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[lojban-beginners] Re: {nu penmi} versus {le nunpenmi}
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:38:28 -0800, Robin Lee Powell
<rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:26:50PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote:
> > OK, what about {se}, {te}, {ve}, and {xe}? Since {jbena}'s place
> > structure is "x1 is born to x2 at time x3 and place x4", can a
> > lujvo be coined as {teljbena} to mean "birthday" and {veljbana} to
> > mean "birthplace"?
>
> Yes.
Well, terjbena actually.
IIRC xel- was "reclaimed" from xelso to be the rafsi of xe, but ter-
is still the "odd one out" in the series sel- ter- vel- xel-. (tel- is
from stela.)
Vaguely annoying but far too late to do anything about it.
mu'o mi'e .filip.
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>